Merry Christmas to all of you! I merely love this festival of lights, Christmas trees and beautiful view of the street filled with the talks of red-headed people! Santa Claus has always been the king of Christmas and the beard as white as snow on his happy face has captured the hearts of young children all over the world. When I was very young, I always imagined the silhouette of King Santa slowly walking towards my room in the cold yet pleasant darkness and placing my gift under my pillow. That's what my parents used to narrate to me when I used to screech in happiness and carefully caressed the gift in my arms as if it were an innocent baby.
Giving and receiving gifts is one of the best 'oh my gosh!!!' moments of this joyous festival. All would anticipate excitedly for their gifts and would tear open the gift wrappers as if they are about to procure some secret treasure underneath the sparkling layers. But at that moment, the gift is no less than a secret treasure and we value it from the bottom of our hearts.
Gifting something to someone special is marked by immense love. Unfortunately the mark has faded over the passage of time. The sweet and memorable period where one exchanges gifts with someone special has now become a target of a flashy price tag. People are expecting expensive and sophisticated gifts in Christmas. The true magic of Christmas has lost it's essence in this commercial paradise.
If emotions are valued less than the cost of the gifts, the joy of gifting decreases and the stress rises. That is because dejected individuals are the ones whose expectations have failed to take the image of reality. No one likes to see their loved ones with sullen faces during the time of Christmas. So it leads to certain amount of stress. That is when the true spirit of Christmas slowly starts losing it's hold.
This true magic encompasses only the emotions behind every gift. Placing a warm blanket on the shivering hands indicates the emotion of warmth. Offering a small lantern to a fearful wanderer depicts the feeling of hope being passed on, so that the wanderer could follow the light. Gifting delicious cookies to a fragile face indicates the emotion of care through which his hunger could finally take it's last breath. Offering a pair of shoes could lessen the pain inflicted by the scars on someone's feet.
Christmas is regarded as the festival of joy but is everyone happy? Some are but many are not. If each one initiates a selfless giving, joy would spread like an avalanche and the number will increase who always cheer in unison: Merry Christmas!
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